Youneverknow.

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> the practice of slapping two cardboards with glue and string
> appears to have ended before 1961
>

Sigh! Not really, though most, if not all such, at Harvard are now in
storage or in rare-book rooms.

For some reason, the string is called "library tape." Every specialty has
its jargon.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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